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ShadowCell · Joined: 03 Aug 2008 Posts: 5252 Location: California

besides which, it is an interesting constitutional question as to what happens if it turns out we go eight years with a president who isn't constitutionally authorized to be president. might make a good political novel premise.

it just doesn't have any bearing on the present real world, because Barack Obama is totally legitimately the President of the United States.

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Lasairfiona · Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:01 pm Post subject:

*bluster bluster bluster*

I think treason by a sitting president would be a much more interesting political novel. Or if he were an alien from space or something.
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Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9290 Location: Bellingham, WA

This is just a guess, but I think the practical answer is "nothing." Without precedent or a Constitutional framework, no automatic action would happen. It would fall to Congress to decide what to do, and they'd do it through additional legislation. Which means nothing would happen (due to our lack of an Usher of the Black Rod), but Dems would be run out of both houses for a generation and racists everywhere would feel vindicated in their distrust of minorities.
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John in Tronna · Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:55 pm Post subject:

Again, for what it's worth, I apologize for even bringing up the subject. I would not have done so had I realized just how thorny an issue it was

I am not a birther -- which is why I put the quotes around it in the subject line. I voted NDP in the last election, that puts me further to the left than Obama is. Yes, I believe he's American; again, I only asked the question because you have this constitutional rule, and I merely wondered "what if". Also, I do NOT hate the man. I like him (as far as any politician goes).

All I am asking here is, to paraphrase Napoleon, please do not attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.

So.... how can I make amends here to those I've offended?
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 3047

They probably don't hold anything against you and were just getting prickly at the very mention of birthers.
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John in Tronna · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:06 am Post subject:

Mr Gary · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:08 am Post subject:

Yeah, what HR said. Or as Snorri would say, It's coo' man.
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mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15450 Location: under the bed

well, really, the whole birther thing is just silly. was george washington born in the united states of america? was jefferson? or adams? I THINK NOT.
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Dennis J. Squidbunny · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:56 am Post subject:

GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS BORN IN KENYA?!

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9290 Location: Bellingham, WA

The whole Revolution is invalidated! We belong to Britain! Damn your foreign hide, Founding Fathers!
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